Gustav Preyer

The Preyer brothers , painting by Josef Winkelirer : Johann Wilhelm Preyer (standing) and Gustav Preyer (sitting)

Gustav Preyer (born May 3, 1801 in Wermelskirchen , † November 8, 1839 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

He was the older brother of Louise Preyer and Johann Wilhelm Preyer and grew up in Eschweiler from 1813 .

Gustav Preyer was a student of Peter von Cornelius and Wilhelm von Schadow at the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf in the field of landscape art. In 1837 he went to Munich with his brother Johann Wilhelm Preyer and exhibited his work in the halls of the Munich Art Association . After a study trip in the Bavarian mountains in the summer of 1839, Gustav Preyer died in his studio in Munich.

literature

Alfred Schubert : Preyer, Gustav . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 393 .

Web links

Commons : Gustav Preyer - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

The Preyer family of painters. In: Zeit- und Kunstverlag. Retrieved February 29, 2012
Josef Winkelirer: The Preyer brothers drawing in a landscape
Painter and painting database

Individual evidence

^ Atanazy Raczyński , Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen : History of modern German art. Volume 1 ( preview at books.google.de ).
^ Report on the existence and activities of the Munich Art Association, which was under the Most High Protectorate of His Royal Highness the Prince-Regent Luitpold of Bavaria: during the year 1839. Munich 1840, p. 90 ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Preyer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wermelskirchen
DATE OF DEATH	November 8, 1839
Place of death	Munich

[1] Atanazy Raczyński , Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen : History of modern German art. Volume 1 ( preview at books.google.de ).

[2] Report on the existence and activities of the Munich Art Association, which was under the Most High Protectorate of His Royal Highness the Prince-Regent Luitpold of Bavaria: during the year 1839. Munich 1840, p. 90 ( books.google.de ).